Will Sundar face consequences for Google's stagnation and AI fiascos?

Question

It's no surprise that over the past several years Google has been stagnating. Look at their progress in cloud and AI. Most of their actions are merely reactions. I think Sundar should be held accountable for this and face consequences. Thoughts?

pyb · Accepted Answer

Pichai got promoted from CEO of Google to CEO of Alphabet some time ago. Therefore, as strange as it is, Larry and Sergey are fully on board with whatever it is that he's doing.

verdverm · Answer

I don't see the stagnation.GCP is by far my preferred cloud. I don't see their competition meeting them on UX, reliability, or performance. They have been investing a lot in enterprise oriented features.Their AI portfolio has been growing. I was surprised recently by how good the OCR on handwritten text is. Their OpenAI like APIs are already being rolled out.That being said, I'm also impressed by Microsoft. Of the 3 big players, AWS seems to be the closest to stagnation. What was the last exciting thing they did?

pubby · Answer

What consequences did you have in mind? Most CEOs get a golden parachute when they're sacked.

aborsy · Answer

The industry direction has generally not been good (Covid, recession, backlash against these big companies and ad business, competition escalation etc).

smoldesu · Answer

Google doesn't care about this because it is a vehement waste of their time. They sell ads, and have no reason to burn money on LLMs for goodwill; Microsoft does.Avoiding conflict with Microsoft/OpenAI might be an excellent bluff-check in a world that wants to monetize, distribute and advertise AI generated content.